From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 23583
Date: 2003-06-19
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:No.
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:08:50 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >It seems in your argument you are using 'unrelated' for 'non-
>> >contiguous'. Have you ruled out a conservative spread from
>Castillian
>> >in Cantabria?
>>
>> Castilian *comes* from Cantabria (roughly the area Santander-
>Burgos).
>>
>> >Or tried to see the two areas as relic islands?
>>
>> There is, as far as I know, no trace of -n- deletion in Castilian,
>> Aragonese or Catalan (except -n > -0).
>>
>
>How about this hypothetical scenario, then:
>
>1) Reconquista (halfways?) in linguistic north-south stripes
>
>2) The whole north coast goes -o > -u, -Vn > V~ etc (Basque
>substrate? French influence?)
>
>3) Conservative Castillan goes north (after Madrid becomes capital)
>and breaks the north coast into two halves